.260 Remington ballistics chart
The .260 Remington trajectory with a 130-grain match bullet: drop, wind drift and retained velocity from a 100-yard zero out to 1,000 yards.
What is the .260 Remington?
The .260 Remington is the .308 Winchester case necked down to 6.5mm, which lets it fire long, high-BC 6.5mm bullets from a short action. Before the 6.5 Creedmoor arrived it was the dominant cartridge in tactical and precision-rifle competition, and it still matches the Creedmoor's ballistics almost exactly.
Its longer neck and shorter overall-length limit mean the longest bullets have to be seated deeper into the powder space, which is the main reason the Creedmoor overtook it. Rifles and brass remain widely available, and in a rifle that is throated for heavy bullets it is a flat-shooting, mild-recoiling target and deer cartridge.
Typical uses: Precision-rifle competition, F-Class and long-range target shooting, and deer-sized game.
Sample load
The trajectory below is calculated for this representative factory load in a standard ICAO atmosphere. The bullet is an entry from the app’s bullet library, so the calculator opens with it already selected. Your rifle will differ — enter your own chronographed velocity and verified BC in the calculator for numbers you can dial.
- Bullet
- Hornady 130 gr ELD Match
- Muzzle velocity
- 2,840 fps
- Ballistic coefficient
- 0.277 (G7)
- Zero
- 100 yd
.260 Remington key figures
- Muzzle energy
- 2,329 ft⋅lb
- Supersonic to
- About 1,250 yd
- Point-blank range, 6 in zone
- 285 yd (243 yd zero)
- Point-blank range, 3 in zone
- 220 yd (189 yd zero)
- Drop at 300 yd, 100 yd zero
- 12.3 in
Point-blank range is how far you can hold dead on and still hit a target zone of that height, using the zero shown. Work it out for your own load with the maximum point-blank range calculator , or see how the .260 Remington stacks up in the cartridge comparison chart .
.260 Remington trajectory table
| Range (yd) | Velocity (fps) | Energy (ft⋅lb) | Drop (in) | Elevation (MIL) | Elevation (MOA) | Wind 10 mph (MIL) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | 2,671 | 2,060 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 |
| 200 | 2,508 | 1,816 | -3.4 | 0.5 | 1.6 | 0.4 |
| 300 | 2,350 | 1,594 | -12.3 | 1.2 | 3.9 | 0.6 |
| 400 | 2,198 | 1,395 | -27.5 | 1.9 | 6.6 | 0.8 |
| 500 | 2,052 | 1,216 | -49.9 | 2.8 | 9.5 | 1.0 |
| 600 | 1,911 | 1,055 | -80.6 | 3.8 | 12.8 | 1.3 |
| 700 | 1,776 | 910 | -120.9 | 4.9 | 16.5 | 1.5 |
| 800 | 1,645 | 781 | -172.1 | 6.1 | 20.5 | 1.8 |
| 900 | 1,518 | 665 | -236.3 | 7.4 | 25.1 | 2.1 |
| 1,000 | 1,395 | 562 | -315.6 | 8.9 | 30.1 | 2.5 |
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